Senate confirmation hearings open today for President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an environmental attorney known for spreading public health conspiracy theories and disinformation. He has claimed HIV may not cause AIDS, that COVID-19 was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people, and that chemicals in the U.S. water supply are leading more children to be gay and transgender. Ahead of RFK Jr.'s appearance before the Senate Committee on Finance, his cousin Caroline Kennedy, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Australia and daughter of President John F. Kennedy, called on senators to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination.

Caroline Kennedy: “I’ve known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator. … Bobby is addicted to attention and power. Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children, vaccinating his own kids while building a following hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs.”